To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONDon’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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